Why Labour shouldn’t raise National Insurance to pay for the NHS
Labour is on the brink of pledging to raise National Insurance to invest in the NHS, according to…
Andrew Harrop
Labour can change Britain… if it answers these 10 questions
This year Labour has to start thinking beyond May 2015 and start planning for power. As Luke Akehurst…
2030 vision – how Labour should spend money in government
Rebuilding Labour ‘s economic credibility is perhaps the most pressing challenge facing Ed Miliband and Ed Balls. Voters…
A new conversation on ‘spending wisely’
Today the Fabian Society publishes the first report of our Commission on Future Spending Choices, a year-long inquiry…
A shrinking state is a right-wing fantasy
Yesterday on LabourList Adam Lent argued that the Labour Party has been overrun by ‘vulgar Fabianism’. In saying…
No Labour Chancellor should contemplate adopting Osborne’s economic figures
In the new edition of the Fabian Review magazine, I make the case for Labour to ignore the temptation to…
Terrible news for the Coalition (and Labour)
The growth figures in George Osborne’s budget are terrible news for the coalition. But they hardly make good…
Ed Miliband is not Tony Blair – he’ll need to seize power in his own way
It’s now well known that the single greatest explanation for Labour’s steady lead in the polls is the…
Painful spending choices will happen, even if a future Labour chancellor can avoid an outright cut in expenditure
P.G Wodehouse said ‘it is a good rule in life never to apologise’. As he delivered a grim…
This Halloween beware of Labour’s zombie voters
We all know it’s a long way from a 2015 general election. An awful lot could change and…
